. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. fflmm. Windows (Fig. 131) were lancet-shaped (fromwhich the style takes its name), and framed by a fewmouldings clearly defined. Some were set single,some double, with a rose, inwhich case a larger pointed archoften surrounded the three (). Huge rose windows, orbulls-eyes, threaded in every di-rection with stone embroideries,were much employed, supply-ing many a model for the filmyfabrics of Flanders. One of thesecobwebs of tracery still fills thenorthern gable of Notre Dame,at Paris (see Fig. 133), warmedinto colou
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. fflmm. Windows (Fig. 131) were lancet-shaped (fromwhich the style takes its name), and framed by a fewmouldings clearly defined. Some were set single,some double, with a rose, inwhich case a larger pointed archoften surrounded the three (). Huge rose windows, orbulls-eyes, threaded in every di-rection with stone embroideries,were much employed, supply-ing many a model for the filmyfabrics of Flanders. One of thesecobwebs of tracery still fills thenorthern gable of Notre Dame,at Paris (see Fig. 133), warmedinto colours now lost to art. One of the most striking fea-tures of a thirteenth-centurycathedral was the west front—a thing full of melo-dies of line and harmonies of form. In some of these facades three windows, symboliz-ing the Trinity, were inlaid, the central one beinghigher than the adjacent two, and often surmountedby a rose, as in Chartres (Fig. 134). In others therose window itself filled the place of importance, asat Amiens and Notre Dame (Plate XLI). But in allthe lower
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